Coarse Image Motion for Saccade Control

P. F. McLauchlan, I. Reid, D. W. Murray
1992 Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 1992  
We describe a 2D vision module that estimates the motion of moving objects for the purpose of driving saccadic head/eye motions to fixate them. Robustness and a fast reaction time are the main requirements of the module. The apparently moving background is segmented from the moving objects in the scene using a prediction of the background flow obtained from head odometry. Subsequently the velocities of the detected objects are determined using a least-square method to solve the aperture
more » ... The algorithm has been implemented at frame rate (25Hz) on a network of five transputers, and has a latency of approximately 0.06s.
doi:10.5244/c.6.37 dblp:conf/bmvc/McLauchlanRM92 fatcat:7hcpypdi4zc2xfoyceksi4vwke